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The response carried a one-week shared max-age and a large age header, while the zone reported the request as dynamic and the immutable per-deployment URL answered 404. This matches Pages asset retention: assets a data centre has served stay cached for up to a week and are used for paths the current deployment lacks. A cache-busting query string returns the correct 404, which can hide the problem in manual checks. 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In the worker, map a page request (a directory path or an explicit .html path) to its file; if the file is not in the list, return the deployment's own 404 page with status 404 and Cache-Control no-store before calling env.ASSETS, so retention can never answer. Leave content-hashed build assets and non-page files on the default path so pages already open keep loading old scripts. Add a build gate that refuses a pack whose list differs from its HTML files in either direction or lacks the 404 page. Because the list ships inside the deployment, a Pages rollback restores the matching list. 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